AVS. A Vijay Sai…. oops… sorry it is actually A Vijaya Sai at the moment due to some trivial oversight at the time of his advent and its accompanying record-keeping procedures. An amazing actor, dancer, artist, musician, satirist, sportsman, chatterbox and much more, each of his aptitudes need to be inspected from an angle that is not by and large applicable for other mortals with a similar talent.
On stage, he might not strike you as the best actor; but on the stage of life, there can be no better. Perhaps there is no playwright who can describe or envisage a character so comprehensively leaving him with no choice but to limit his capabilities in theater. In the open world where the character is fashioned in his mind and the plots and sub-plots are outlined by him, he is invincible.
His dance is but an extension of his versatility in acting. Depending on the audience and its mood, it can take on various forms and hues, vary in energy, enrapture them so as to just leave them gaping or join in and then leave them gasping. The colors in his photographs can be fathomed in his paintings. When there is a camera around, be sure that it is he who is going to spend the maximum time possible with it. The silver lining is that it could be either in front of the camera or behind it.
He is a saxophonist who prefers to keep mathematics- or any academic object for that matter- as far away from him as possible during non-academic times. Eight hours in the day are reserved for sleep. In places where a large number of people congregate, it would be startling if he managed to turn even a page. When any one of key-board, saxophone or food is near him, he would not want anybody to expect him to study. When he is in rooms smaller than 3x3 in dimension, one should of course not expect him to carry his books along!
He does not study in the class-room and surely not in the playground. Then there is the time he has to devote to hone his satirical skills. "I'm studying right now", he says over the phone. Well, let us give him the benefit of doubt.
The baritone- saxophone looked majestic in his arms and so it naturally took some time for him to take the tenor-saxophone. One of the few times you could see him without a glint of mischief in his eyes is when he holds one of these. Another time is when he is involved in an actual basket-ball game with high stakes. The Vijay you get to see at these times is an abnormally serious-looking one. Cricket though is something he can play with a focused but relaxed mind.
The sheer fun of many jokes is only the fact that it is he who is narrating them. It could be a real event or just a figment of his imagination; the unreal part and the sarcastic humor are ingredients that he uses to spice up and season his servings. The entire festival of Shivaratri might pass and you could still be listening to his tales- both short and 'tall'.
Waiting to walk up to this person and shake his hands so that you could enter his world of fun and frolic? BEWARE!!! On any day, he seems unstoppable; on his day, he is unstoppable. Not having found anything of interest inside, his mind can quickly latch on to any opening presented by your very presence as he launches into a hilariously sarcastic fest.
The best thing is to be sporting though because you will get your chances and he will not hold as a grudge your use of these opportunities unless he gets another occasion to exercise his bantering skills.
It took me the better part of the almost seventeen years that I have known him for to understand properly the intention behind his acts. It is all in good humor and that is what one can learn and keep in mind not just when one is with him, but always.
(To give you an idea of how weird his mind can get, he decided to send a very unconventional picture to put up on this page!)
